Canadians are being encouraged take a break from mowing their lawns this month.
Andrew Holland with the Nature Conservancy says ‘No Mow May’ is a campaign to help local pollinators.
“Longer lawns can give a much needed boost to native flowering plant, which are scarcer in our cities,” he says.
He adds this simple act can increase bee populations by as much as 10 times.
Holland says it stems from the ‘Every Flower Counts’ campaign in the United Kingdom.
He says studies done in the UK showed it could provide bees with as much as 23kg of nectar per day, enough nectar to help 2.1 million, or 60 thousand hives of honeybees.
